Roseville CA

Placer County is situated in the regions of Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Valley, in California’s state. The area where the county is situated is known under the name of Gold Country. The county goes from the Nevada border to Lake Tahoe and the Sacramento suburbs. Since the Sacramento metro area grows fast, this county is the county with the highest growth in the state. In just eight years, from 2000 to 2008, the county’s population went from 248,000 to 338,000. Auburn is the seat of the county.

This county occupies an area of over 1500 sq. miles, over 6% of which is made out of water, the rest being land. The Bunch Creek and the American river are two of the watercourses of the county. Two fifths of the area of Lake Tahoe is located in the Placer County.

For centuries, Placer County was the area where the Miwok and Maidu Native Americans lived. Then, in the 19^th century gold was found here and miners came in large numbers. The name of the county comes from the word for gravel or sand, from the Spanish language. The process that the miners used to find gold was called placer mining and the name of the county comes from that.

At the end of the 19^th century the mining of gold was a large part of the local economy, but in time people started to farm the soil which was very fertile, to harvest the timber and to work on the railroad. In 1848, Auburn was started and soon after that it became a supply and shipping center for the area and its gold camps. While only a little agricultural center initially, Roseville quickly became a large railroad center and after the switching yards were moved here it was also the city with the most people in the county.